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From The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 89, page 205 :
Mrs. Josephine Mcduffee Junkins.
DAR ID Number: 88646
Born in Rochester, N. H.
Wife of George S. Junkins.
Descendant of James McDuffee, Caleb Hopkinson, Solomon Lombard, and Calvin Lombard, as follows:
1. Charles McDuffee (1825-86) m. 1st 1846 Sarah C. Hopkinson (1827-54).
2. James McDuffee (1796-1868) m. 1821 Hannah Ham (1801-90); Moses Hopkinson (1796-1881) m. 1821 Elizabeth Hamlin (1796-1870).
3. Jacob McDuffee (1770-1848) m. 1794 Abigail Flagg (1774-1870); Stephen Hopkinson (b. 1771) m. Rachel Lombard (b. 1773).
4. James McDuffee m. 1762 Mercy Young; Caleb Hopkinson m. 1770 Sarah Clay Stafford (b. 1745); Calvin Lombard m. Martha Grant.
5. Solomon Lombard m. 1724 Sarah Purington.
— James McDuffee (1726-1804) served on the Committee of Safety from Rochester, N. H., where he was born and died.
— Caleb Hopkinson (1747-1841) served several enlistments and was one of Gates’ bodyguard at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was born in Bradford, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.
— Solomon Lombard (1702-81) was chairman of the Committee of Safety, 1776, served in the General Court and as Judge of Cumberland County. He died in Gorham, Me.
— Calvin Lombard (1748-1808) served as a volunteer with the Gorham minute men. He was born in Truro, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.
From The Kneeland Miscellany, Compiled by Bertha J. and Frank E. Kneeland, 1914-1917. Page 206.
George Selby and Mary Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins [were] born 10, 1846 and February 12, 1848, at South Berwick, Maine, and Rochester, New Hampshire, respectively. They were married at Lawrence, Mass., April 12, 1870 (4/2/70) and, with the exception of the first year of their married life during which Mr. Junkins was in charge of a woolen factory at North Berwick, Me., lived continuously in that city, of which he was twice Mayor, up to the time of his death on November 12, 1900. Some three years after his death and after her daughters Helen and Marian had graduated from the Boston University School of Medecine and Radcliffe College respectively in 1903 (1903), Mrs. Junkins removed with her daughter Helen to Lowell, Mass, where they resided upt to the time of the latter’s marriage to Edward J. Beach at her sister Marian’s home on the grounds of Leland Stanford, Jr. University at Palo Alto, California, in April 1909. Having previously sold her home on Tower Hill, Lawrence, (110 Bodwell street), Mrs. Junkins thereafter became a considerable traveller, making frequent visits to her daughters in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dubuque, Iowa, and Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California, taking occasion to see such natural wonders as The Yellowstone, The Yosemite, and The Grand Canyon of Arizona en route, a tour of Alaska in 1911, and one of Europe extending through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium, in 1912. She last visited her eldest daughter at Brooklyn on her return from Europe in September, 1912, at which time she took the pictures of her grand-daughter Helen seated in her baby chairs and bath-tub on the roof of the apartment house at 128 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, with the tower of the Christian Science Church accross the way in the background, which appear in Helen’s baby album. Leaving for Dubuque on this occasion, Mrs. Junkins made the trip up the Hudson on one of the Day Line steamers and opined that, except for the castles, the real Rhine which she had traversed a few weeks previously had nothing on its American prototype! Shortly after her youngest daughter Marian’s third child (Carlton Skinner) was born at the hospital in Palo Alto, California, in April, 1913, Mrs. Junkins herself was forced to become a patient in the same hospital where she underwent two operations for the stomach trouble from which she had long been a sufferer! She rallied sufficiently to make the trip to Dubuque, Iowa, in the early Summer of 1913, but suffered a relapse shortly after her arrival and died in the hospital to which she had been removed in Dubuque on August 6, 1913. Both she and her husband sleep in the lot which he had provided in the Extension to Bellevue Cemetery at Lawrence, Mass. Prior to his election to the Mayoralty, Mr. Junkins had been in the Meat and Provision business. After his second term as Mayor had expired he became associated with the Stanley Grain Company of Lawrence as its Treasurer! It is now owned and conducted by George A. Stanley, whose father was the original founder of the business!
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